MIGHTY TRENDING
Lauren Frias

Veteran gets his diploma 76 years after missing graduation to fight in WWII

A Chicago veteran missed his graduation day in 1944 serving in World War II. But on June 13, 2019, he walked across the stage, officially graduating with the Class of 2019.

William Wagner, 94, was drafted during the last half of his senior year at Tilden High School on Chicago's South Side, ABC7 reported.

"They told me to take history and civics to get my diploma," Wagner told ABC7. "I went to the draft board and they said, 'Punk you got a number, you got to go.'"

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Ellen Ioanes

After 75 years, D-Day veteran is reunited with his long-lost French love

An American D-Day veteran was reunited with his French love, 75 years after they first parted, USA Today reports.

K.T. Robbins kept a photo of the girl he met in the village of Briey in 1944. Jeannine Pierson, then Ganaye, was 18 when she met the Army veteran, who was 24 at the time.

"I think she loved me," Robbins, now in his late nineties, told television station France 2 during an interview. Travelling to France for the 75th anniversary of the D-Day invasion, Robbins said he hoped to track down Pierson's family, the BBC reports. "For sure, I won't ever get to see her. She's probably gone now."

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MIGHTY MOVIES
Kim Renfro

'Game of Thrones' composer reveals last season's music secrets

Composer Ramin Djawadi had a formidable task ahead of him for the final season of "Game of Thrones." Back when he was working on the seventh season in 2017, Djawadi didn't know his music written for Jon and Dany would also need to play right as Jon Snow plunged a dagger into Daenerys' heart.

Showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss had "talked a little bit in riddles" about Dany's fate and the music Djawadi needed to write, the composer said in an interview with INSIDER on June 11, 2019.

"They said, 'OK, this needs to be a really romantic theme, but make sure that it's a love theme that can imply complications,'" Djawadi said. "That's how they started me out. They said things turn differently and things go wrong."

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MIGHTY MOVIES
Bill Bostock

Russia is making a rival to HBO's 'Chernobyl'

Russia is working on its own TV show about the Chernobyl nuclear disaster — but this version focuses on a conspiracy theory that a CIA agent sabotaged the reactor.

The Russian show, whose release date is not yet known, comes at the heels of HBO's successful miniseries, "Chernobyl."

The HBO show attributes the 1986 nuclear disaster to a combination of reckless decisions made by senior plant staff and Soviet state censorship, which resulted in the government hiding dangerous problems at the plant from the public, as well as other scientists and plant staff.

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MIGHTY MOVIES
Kirsten Acuna

'Dark Phoenix' surprises with an unexpected villain

The latest "X-Men" movie shows Jean Grey get taken over by a mysterious cosmic force, pitting her against the X-Men for most of the movie.

However, it's revealed early on that Jean isn't the only threat the X-Men need to worry about.

This is your last chance to head back before spoilers.

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Tom Porter

F-18 pilots report seeing UFOs off of east coast

US Navy pilots reported seeing UFOs (unidentified flying objects) traveling at hypersonic speed and performing impossible mid-air maneuvers off the east coast of the United States, The New York Times reported May 26, 2019.

Several pilots told the outlet that they saw the UFOs several times between 2014 and 2015, and reported the sightings to superiors.

UFO is a technical classification for anything in the air which is unexplained. The pilots did not claim the objects were extraterrestrial in origin. Many UFOs turn out to have logical explanations.

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Nicole Einbinder

Sexual assaults in the US military are on a rise

A Department of Defense report released on May 2, 2019, paints a troubling picture of sexual violence in the US military, with an almost 38 percent rise between 2016 and 2018, according to a Pentagon survey reviewed by INSIDER.

The report, which surveyed men and women in the Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Force, reported that around 20,500 service members experienced sexual assault in the past year — a significant leap from around 14,900 members in 2016, when a similar survey was conducted.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan called the prevalence of sexual assault in the military "unacceptable" in a memorandum sent across the Department of Defense, and reviewed by INSIDER.

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MIGHTY MOVIES
Andrew LaSane

10 'Star Wars' locations you can actually visit in real life

The text that precedes every opening crawl for a "Star Wars" film reminds us that the events we are about to witness take place a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but that's not entirely true. The fictional events may not have occurred recently or nearby, but the films were largely shot on location somewhere on Earth, which means that you can actually visit them in real life.

From national parks in the United States to islands off the coast of Ireland, here are some iconic Star Wars locations you should add to your travel bucket list.

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Beatrice Christofaro

Venezuela's opposition is planning a second day of protests

Venezuela's opposition leader Juan Guaidó called for a second day of mass protests on May 1, 2019, to continue "Operation Freedom" — an attempt to overthrow the country's socialist government.

He said the uprising was a "peaceful rebellion" and that President Nicolás Maduro "doesn't have the support from the armed forces."

On Tuesday, April 30, 2019, thousands of Guaidó's supporters flocked to a military airbase in Caracas to help the opposition and a small group of rebellious soldiers oust Maduro.

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